basicoperation

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by basicoperation 4mo ago
Do you have the same opinion of labour-saving inventions that were created before you were born, or is it just future ones that are evil?
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by basicoperation 4mo ago
Zurich is third behind Dublin (definitely for tax reasons) and London.
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by basicoperation 7mo ago
The site doesn’t make it clear, but it’s not available worldwide. The App Store doesn’t tell you where exactly it is available, but it’s not in the UK. This surprised me seeing as one of the example images shows Europe, including the south
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by basicoperation 2y ago
They fortunately fixed the repeating feature in iOS 18.3. Though it does seem a bit ridiculous that something like this is tied to the entire OS version.
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by basicoperation 3y ago
Do you mean “difficult to overstate”? “Difficult to understate” would mean he has little to no social capital.
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by basicoperation 3y ago
I bet this is the same guy who draws markings on the pavement to tell dognappers where to strike!
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by basicoperation 3y ago
“In Paris, you can buy a beer in McDonalds” ~ Vincent Vega https://youtu.be/6Pkq_eBHXJ4
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by basicoperation 3y ago
I spent several hours earlier this year helping a colleague debug a protobuf deserialisation error, where I noticed that the first byte was a varint-encoded length of the rest of the data! He did eventually get things working, though I neve
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by basicoperation 3y ago
In general, people often forget that if your target is a ratio, you can attack the numerator or the denominator. Often the latter is the easier to manipulate.
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by basicoperation 3y ago
They weren’t scammed, they willingly chose to engage in scummy behaviour with a company that enables such scummy behaviour.
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by basicoperation 3y ago
This but unironically
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by basicoperation 3y ago
This is my favourite page on this subject: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm Well actually, it’s the linked celeb page: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknottingcelebs.htm
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by basicoperation 3y ago
Firing employees who publicly abuse people is in no way similar to committing genocide. To imply that it is is grossly offensive.
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by basicoperation 3y ago
We’ve all worked with these people. Nice to see the company just get rid of one for once.
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by basicoperation 3y ago
The first car didn’t change the world, nor did the first plane, etc. At least not directly. But they did pave the way for the examples that did change the world. No different here. Generative AI will change the world. Doesn’t mean these mod
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by basicoperation 3y ago
Strangely, Americans kept the head part with “hood”, but not the foot part.
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by basicoperation 3y ago
Only if the user is the one deliberately doing the prompt injection. The AI system might be used to summarise the user’s incoming emails. Now anyone who emails the user has the opportunity to inject something into the prompt. Maybe they inj
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by basicoperation 3y ago
Of course: a group contains the inverse of every member.
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by basicoperation 3y ago
Sony Bravia also allows this.
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by basicoperation 4y ago
I purchased some CalorieMate from a Japanese vending machine half-way up a mountain. I was taken aback as I’d assumed it was a fictional product as I’d only encountered it in the video game, Metal Gear Solid 3.
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by basicoperation 4y ago
Current top post on HN is a Raspberry Pi project: rpi is a British invention. Second is a paper from UCL, based in London. In the top few is a paper by DeepMind, also in London. Yet HN likes to go absolutely nuts about how the UK is “done”
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by basicoperation 4y ago
Interesting article, but a shame it had to end with a political attack on England for no reason.
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by basicoperation 4y ago
G prevents this. From its page here: https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/... “The 9-mm long insulated sleeves prevent accidental contact with a bare connector while the plug is partially in
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by basicoperation 4y ago
Indeed. In particular, I’ve seen variations of “Watch how people treat service workers” in this kind of content again and again. It really makes me wonder who needs telling “If the person you’re with is rude to people, they might not be a n
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by basicoperation 4y ago
No-one plays in the World Cup for the money.
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by basicoperation 4y ago
Whilst it uses a lot of Latin words (mostly via French), English is actually a Germanic language.
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by basicoperation 4y ago
Checking from the UK, it’s available on Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime. What region are you in?
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by basicoperation 4y ago
I use a share screen shortcut in iOS to do something similar. Very simplistic, but here’s a link if anyone would find it useful: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ac27cb797ddc479784f22631d69...
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by basicoperation 4y ago
Nice post, but I believe that function g (with the infinite loop) is UB in C++, as it’s required that infinite loops that never break must have side-effects.
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by basicoperation 4y ago
The first image shows a tiling with triangles. 3 is prime.

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